Julien Baker

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A Memphis, Tennessee-based singer/songwriter grew up learning music on her father’s guitar. Julien Baker has a knack for finding the shaky ground between heart-wrenching and cathartic, Julien Baker’s stark and soulful music invokes names like Bon Iver, Daughter, Birdy, and Natalie Prass. Baker honed her skills while playing in her high school band Forrister, with whom she continued to perform while attending college. In her freshman year of college, after writing a batch of songs that didn’t seem to fit the band’s more rock-oriented vibe, Baker headed to Matthew E. White’s Spacebomb Studios in Richmond, Virginia to begin recording what would eventually become her solo debut, 2015’s critically acclaimed 6131 Records-issued Sprained Ankle.